The Confident Heart. From Fear to LOVE by Nils Klippstein - HTML preview

Foreword

Hey there! It's really tempting to write less and less myself. Why bother when I can use a free digital writing assistant to get my point across clearly and concisely? You'll find my personal writing mainly in the older books, in almost all the poems in the Allowing LOVE series, and in some of the forewords. Every now and then, I also ‘treat’ myself to a little chapter here and there. For most general texts, however, I simply don't enjoy doing every­thing myself.

When the experience of simply BEING in the here and now comes together with an energetically bubbling heart, sometimes the motivation to do anything else is lacking. However, writing allows me to continue going through important inner processes. This often works just as well with AI. In doing so, my role changes from author to editor – or to director, if we want to describe it more figuratively.

For many years, I produced videos for companies. Although I learned almost all the tasks and roles involved, I felt most competent as a director. Acting came hardest to me – I didn't even need to try. I was quite good at camera work, but my cameramen were even better. The difference was even greater when it came to video editing: my editors were usually much more creative than me. I have always aimed to clearly define my visions and translate them into suitable images. Delegating, motivating, and providing human support come easily to me. My attention to detail and ability to spot mistakes have helped me produce many fine pieces of work.

While writing my books, I have to keep a close eye on the AI to ensure it doesn't sneak in any cleverly disguised reductions. Recently, I noticed that many AI-generated lists within a sentence are, in my view, in a logically incorrect order. And when it comes to powerful energies, my digital writing assistant usually prefers the singular form. Perhaps it calculates something like a digital fear of the incredible power of being human and therefore prefers to keep us a little smaller.

As our constant mirror, AI reveals that we are not actually particularly intelli­gent. Our brain is a rather limited thinking machine, mostly hypnotised and mani­pulated by external influen­ces and often has difficulty accepting new perspectives. We are usually quite stuck in our ways and stubborn, clinging to our beliefs and worldview in order to feel supposedly secure.

This also has its advantages. Our inner protector ensures that we are not overwhelmed by too much newness and growth all at once. This means that the journey from ego to heart can also be made very slowly. Step by step.

However, in our interpersonal relationships, this inner closedness dictates our lives. The learned stern­ness and stubbornness regarding physical contact with others has been supported for thousands of years by the churches, the state and the social system, so that we have hardly had the opportunity to take other paths.

And once we have felt even the slightest hint of resent­ment or mis­trust towards someone, we often find it difficult to let go, forgive, and try again. Anger and being offended makes our ego feel strong. Our inner protector likes to justify itself with the contrived, seemingly logical explanations of our thinking com­puter in order to make it as easy as possible for us to remain in the eternal comfort zone of sulking and supression.

If we are not mindful, our thinking computer will continue to be ruled by a patriarchal master – regardless of whether we carry a more masculine or feminine body around with us. Thus, the path to a self-confident, energetically bubbling heart is above all an opening to our feminine inner qualities.

It is only when we bring our hearts and minds into a harmonious relationship with each other that we can experience wholeness. Then our lives suddenly become completely different. The curtain opens wide, revealing not only the stage and the play. We can also perceive the rooms behind it that were previously hidden. Seeing the sometimes rather disturbing, fear-based ego facades of our fellow human beings with open hearts requires a lot of compassion and even more inner forgiveness. However, we can no longer judge them because we know how we ourselves were not so long ago when we primarily thought and acted from our inner protector.

The journey described in this book may seem irritating in its simplicity. However, the inner work involved is anything but easy. We must learn to look at our deepest fears and shadow sides and lovingly accept them as part of ourselves. You will also find inspiration and motivation on these topics in my other books.

All that remains is to wish you a good journey. Can you see the destination flag in your inner land­scape? It is far away on the horizon. And as you get closer to it, it moves further away. The only thing that matters is the direction in which you are heading. As human beings, the journey to our inner heart has no end. But step by step, we are getting closer nonetheless.

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